{{Short description|State highway in Grand Isle County, Vermont, US}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox road |state=VT |type=Town |route=225 |alternate_name=Border Road<ref name="VT Route Log MC" /> |map={{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=290|frame-height=290|type=line|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Vermont Route 225}}}} |map_custom=yes |map_notes=VT 225 highlighted in red |maint=the Town of Alburgh |length_mi=1.59 |length_round=2 |length_ref=<ref name="VT Route Log MC" /> |established=By 1985<ref name="1985vtrans" /> |direction_a=South |terminus_a={{jct|state=VT|US|2}} in Alburgh |direction_b=North |terminus_b={{jct|state=QC|QC|225}} at the Canadian border near Noyan, QC |counties=Grand Isle |previous_type=VT |previous_route=215 |next_type=VT |next_route=232 |browse={{vt browse|previous_type=VT|previous_route=67A|route=20px|next_type=VT|next_route=73}} }} '''Vermont Route 225''' ('''VT 225''') is a short {{convert|1.59|mi|km|-long|adj=mid}} state highway in Grand Isle County, Vermont, United States. It runs from U.S. Route 2 (US 2) north of Alburgh and runs due north to the Canadian border, where it becomes Quebec Route 225, from which it derives its number. The route is entirely within Alburgh in Grand Isle County. The entirety of VT 225 is maintained by the town of Alburgh.
Route 225 most practically serves as part of a connection between Vermont and the city of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu in Quebec, located about {{convert|50|km|mi|abbr=on|disp=flip}} southeast of Montreal, Quebec. Quebec Route 225 ends in Sainte-Anne-de-Sabrevois, roughly {{Convert|8|mi|km|spell=in}} from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.{{cn|date=May 2024}}
==Route description== thumb|left|The southern terminus of Vermont Route 225 diverging from US Route 2. VT 225 is essentially a northern spur of US 2, which approaches running northward through the town of Alburgh. US 2 turns westward towards its final approach to New York, and VT 225 begins to the north. The route only intersects two through roads: a short former alignment of US 2 literally mere yards long, and Blair Road, a secondary road which parallels VT 225 northward to the border. Both of these intersections occur within a quarter mile of VT 225's southern terminus. VT 225, appropriately named Border Road, runs almost directly north to the Canadian border at the Alburgh–Noyan Border Crossing, only passing a few isolated homes along the way. Upon crossing the border into Quebec, the road becomes Quebec Route 225.
==History== The length of VT 225 was <!--originally?--> designated as part of VT 104, a highway extending from VT 15 in Cambridge north to the Canadian border near Alburgh, by 1938.<ref>{{cite map |title = New York Road Map for 1938 |author = Esso |year = 1938 |author2 = General Drafting |publisher = Esso }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last = Thibodeau |first = William A. |title = The ALA Green Book |edition = 1938–39 |year = 1938 |publisher = Automobile Legal Association }}</ref> VT 104 was truncated on its northern end to St. Albans in the mid-to-late 1950s, at which time the former routing of VT 104 between Alburgh and the border was re-designated VT 68.<ref>{{cite map |title = New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region |author = Esso |author2 = General Drafting |edition = 1955–56 |year = 1954 |publisher = Esso }}</ref><ref>{{cite map |title = New York and New Jersey Tourgide<!--sic--> Map |author = Gulf Oil |author2 = Rand McNally and Company |year = 1960 |publisher = Gulf Oil }}</ref> It was renumbered to VT 225 between 1976 and 1985<ref name="1985vtrans">{{cite map |publisher = Vermont Agency of Transportation |title = Town of Alburg Field Inventory Map |url = http://76.12.49.225/vtrans/maparchive/th_maps/GRAND%20ISLE/ALBURGH/ALBURGH%5FFIELDINVENTORY%5F1985%2Etif |year = 1985 |author = Highway Planning Division |access-date = April 30, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite map |publisher = Vermont Department of Highways |title = Town of Alburg Field Inventory Map |url = http://76.12.49.225/vtrans/maparchive/th_maps/GRAND%20ISLE/ALBURGH/ALBURGH%5FFIELDINVENTORY%5F1976%2Etif |year = 1976 |author = Highway Planning Division |access-date = April 30, 2009 }}</ref> to match the designation of the highway it connected to (Quebec Route 225) in Quebec.<ref>{{cite map |title = New York |author = Exxon |year = 1977 |edition = 1977–78 |author2 = General Drafting |publisher = Exxon }}</ref>
==Major intersections== {{VTinttop|county=Grand Isle|location=Alburgh|length_ref=<ref name="VT Route Log MC">{{cite web |url = http://vtransplanning.vermont.gov/sites/aot_policy/files/documents/trafficresearch/RLAADT-Final.pdf |title = 2011 (Route Log) AADTs for Major Collectors |author = Traffic Research Unit |date = May 2012 |publisher = Policy, Planning and Intermodal Development Division, Vermont Agency of Transportation |access-date = April 25, 2015 }}</ref>|location_ref=<ref name="VT Route Log MC" />}} <!-- MC293 --> {{VTint |mile=0.00 |road={{jct|state=VT|US|2|city1=St. Albans|areadab1=city|city2=Burlington|location3=Rouses Point NY}} |notes=Southern terminus }} {{VTint |mile=1.59 |road={{jct|state=QC|QC|225|dir1=north|city1=Noyan}} |notes=Continuation into Quebec }} {{jctbtm}}
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